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Spray Pyrolysis-Derived Cobalt Oxide Thin Films: Synthesis and Optical Property Evaluation Open

Madhav Prasad Ghimire, Bijaya B. Karki, Leela Pradhan Joshi, Lekhanath Kandel, Mani Ram Kandel , et al. · 2025

This study presents a simple and cost-effective approach for synthesizing cobalt oxide (Co3O4) thin films on glass substrates using a homemade spray pyrolysis technique. The investigation centers on how thermal treatment affects the optica…

Cutting Costs and Carbon: Re-evaluating Routine Group and Save Testing for Appendicectomies Open

Obed Amoako-Adjei, A Defer, Bijaya B. Karki, A. Nayak · 2025

Chemical Profiling of Street Dust in Kathmandu Valley: A Preliminary Environmental Assessment Open

Bijaya B. Karki, Mani Ram Kandel, Madhav Prasad Ghimire, Lekh Nath Kandel, Santosh Khanal , et al. · 2025

Street dust in urban agglomerations serves as a sink and secondary source of environmental contaminants, primarily in rapidly growing urban agglomerations. This first-time study investigates the chemical properties and concentration of hea…

282 Breaking Down Barriers: Understanding Challenges to Surgical Career Preferences Among Medical Students and Junior Doctors in LMICs and HICs Open

Prakriti Subedi, Z Mohammed, S Katuwal, Samir Joshi, Amit Khatri , et al. · 2025

Aim The study explores the decline in interest among medical students and junior doctors in pursuing a career in general surgery. It investigates the barriers affecting surgical career preferences in both low- and middle-income countries (…

402 Cutting Costs and Carbon: Rethinking Routine Group and Save Testing for Appendicectomies Open

A. Nayak, O Amoako-Adjei, A Defer, Bijaya B. Karki, Ashley Wilkins · 2025

Aim Routine Group and Save (G&S) testing is frequently performed pre-operatively for appendicectomies, despite the low likelihood of blood transfusion. This study evaluates the clinical utility, financial cost, and environmental impact of …

409 The Elusive Appendix: Are Trainees Getting Enough Operative Exposure? A Retrospective Study from a District General Hospital Open

Arvind Nayak, Obed Amoako-Adjei, A Defer, Bijaya B. Karki, A Wilkins · 2025

Aim Appendicectomies are index procedures for core surgical training and used to shortlist applicants for higher surgical training. We aimed to evaluate the opportunities available for core trainees (CTs) to perform appendicectomies at a b…

Systematic contextual biases in SegmentNT relevant to all nucleotide transformer models Open

Mark Ebbert, Alyssa Ho, Bram Dutch, Madeline L. Page, Blake K. Byer , et al. · 2025

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have extended to genomic applications, yet model robustness relative to context changes is unclear. Here, we demonstrate two intrinsic biases (input sequence length and position) affecting Se…

Speciation and diffusive dynamics in hydrated grain boundaries of complex oxide Gd2Ti2O7 Open

Dipta B. Ghosh, Bijaya B. Karki, Jianwei Wang · 2025

Grain boundaries in polycrystalline materials significantly affect their properties, such as ionic transport, corrosion, and chemical durability. The pyrochlore compound (Gd 2 Ti 2 O 7 ) is employed as a model for complex oxides and is kno…

A Novel Reliable and Trust Objective Function for RPL-Based IoT Routing Protocol Open

Bijaya B. Karki, Dipesh Bhattarai, Lars Stixrude · 2025

Weakly Supervised Graph Neural Networks for Scalable 3D Phase Segmentation in Molecular Dynamics Simulations Open

Abin Shakya, Bijaya B. Karki · 2025

Factors Influencing of College Students’ Choice to Abroad: A Survey Study Open

Bijaya B. Karki · 2024

This study aims to identify the factors of college students’ choices to migrate abroad. The independent variables are push and pull factors and the dependent variable is the socio-economic motive for going abroad. Push factors consist of u…

Insights into core-mantle differentiation from bulk Earth melt simulations Open

Abin Shakya, Dipta B. Ghosh, C. Jackson, Gabriele Morra, Bijaya B. Karki · 2024

The earth is thought to have gone through complex physicochemical changes during the accretion and magma ocean stages. To better understand this evolution process at the fundamental level, we investigate the behavior of a bulk earth melt s…

Comparison of algorithms in Foreign Exchange Rate Prediction Open

Swagat Ranjit, Jian Zhang, Bijaya B. Karki · 2024

Foreign currency exchange plays a vital role for trading of currency in the financial market. Due to its volatile nature, prediction of foreign currency exchange is a challenging task. This paper presents different machine learning techniq…

High Char Yield and Flowable Preceramic Resin Enabled with the Monomer Functionalized SiC Particle Open

Ashwani Kumar Thukral, Bijaya B. Karki, Gabriel Iftime, J. Cordeiro, Jiangxiong Wei , et al. · 2024

Ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) are used in diverse high temperature applications; however, manufacturing CMCs is highly time consuming and costly. We address this challenge by introducing a methodology for fabricating CMCs using an innov…

Region-Transformer: Self-Attention Region Based Class-Agnostic Point Cloud Segmentation Open

Dipesh Gyawali, Jian Zhang, Bijaya B. Karki · 2024

Point cloud segmentation, which helps us understand the environment of specific structures and objects, can be performed in class-specific and class-agnostic ways. We propose a novel region-based transformer model called Region-Transformer…

Crystal–melt interfaces in Mg2SiO4 at high pressure: structural and energetics insights from first-principles simulations Open

Bijaya B. Karki, Dipta B. Ghosh, Jianwei Wang, Shun‐ichiro Karato · 2023

The interplay between crystal–melt and grain boundary interfaces in partially melted polycrystalline aggregates controls many physical properties of mantle rocks. To understand this process at the fundamental level requires improved knowle…

1050 Application of Bloom’s Taxonomy and Kolb’s Experiential Learning Theory While Designing Low-Cost Surgical Skills Courses for Junior Doctors & International Medical Graduates (IMGs) in the NHS Open

Bijaya B. Karki, Mohammed Basamh, Anoushka Sinha, Josephine Walshaw, Mahmoud Loubani · 2023

Aim To design a surgical skills course underpinned by Bloom’s & Kolb’s learning theory for junior doctors in the NHS. To develop an affordable skills course for the acquisition of the necessary skills & confidence among junior doctors. Met…

1267 Application of the Low-Cost Laparoscopic Appendicectomy Simulation (LaApSi) Model for Laparoscopic Training in Low-Middle-Income-Countries (LMIC) and Its Comparison with the Laparoscopic Skills Session in the UK Open

Bijaya B. Karki, S Katuwal, Josephine Walshaw, A Rao, M. Mohan Rao , et al. · 2023

Aim To assess the LaApSi Model’s effectiveness in the surgical simulation within and outside the UK. To assess the delegates' expectations while simulating Laparoscopic Appendicectomy (LA) using LaApSi Model. Method LaApSi models were deve…

911 How to Design a Low-Cost 3D Printed Laparoscopic Appendicectomy Simulation Model (LaApSi)? Open

Bijaya B. Karki, S Katuwal, Josephine Walshaw, Cheryl F. Atkinson, S Satyal , et al. · 2023

Aim To develop a Low-cost Laparoscopic Appendicectomy Simulation (LaApSi) Model and to assess its application for surgical simulation in UK & Lower Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). To ensure a realistic and accurate representation of the a…

406 Review of Consenting Practice at the Tertiary Centre for Emergency Inguinal Hernia Repair Open

Bijaya B. Karki, Ashkan Nadjarpour, Salma Akram, S Katuwal · 2023

Aim To compare standardised consenting practice for Emergency Inguinal Hernia Repair amongst various grades in the General Surgery department at the Tertiary Centre. To ensure improvement in the consenting practice and documentation of the…

Simulations of silicate and metallic melts for structural and dynamical insights Open

Bijaya B. Karki · 2023

The transport properties of mafic melt at extreme conditions: Insights into the dynamics of the magma ocean Open

Mainak Mookherjee, Bijaya B. Karki, S. K. Bajgain, Aaron Wolfgang Ashley · 2023

Optimizing Individual and Team Productivity Through Effective TIME Management Strategies Open

Bijaya B. Karki · 2023

Insights into magma ocean dynamics from the transport properties of basaltic melt Open

S. K. Bajgain, Aaron Wolfgang Ashley, Mainak Mookherjee, Dipta B. Ghosh, Bijaya B. Karki · 2022

First-principles simulations of grain boundaries and crystal-melt interfaces in Mg<sub>2</sub>SiO<sub>4</sub> under pressure Open

Bijaya B. Karki, Dipta B. Ghosh, Jianwei Wang · 2022

Diffusional fractionation of helium isotopes in silicate melts Open

Haiyang Luo, Bijaya B. Karki, Dipta B. Ghosh, Huiming Bao · 2021

Estimating Helium (He) concentration and isotope composition of the mantle requires quantifying He loss during magma degassing.The knowledge of diffusional He isotope fractionation in silicate melts may be essential to constrain the He los…

228 Outcomes of Gallstone Complications During the COVID Pandemic Open

John Isherwood, Bijaya B. Karki, Wen Yuan Chung, Tareq Alsaoudi, Jutta Wolff , et al. · 2021

Background The Intercollegiate General Surgery Guidance on COVID-19 recommended either non-surgical management or cholecystostomy drains for the management of acute biliary disease replacing gold standard practice of early laparoscopic cho…

Behavior and properties of water in silicate melts under deep mantle conditions Open

Bijaya B. Karki, Dipta B. Ghosh, Shun‐ichiro Karato · 2021

Hydration-driven stabilization and volume collapse of grain boundaries in Mg2SiO4 forsterite predicted by first-principles simulations Open

Dipta B. Ghosh, Bijaya B. Karki, Jianwei Wang · 2021

Grain boundaries in mantle minerals are of critical importance to geophysical and geochemical processes of the Earth’s interior. One of the fundamental issues is to understand how the water (H2O) component influences the properties of grai…

88 Prevalence Of SARS-COVID-19 Serum Igg Antibodies Amongst Staff on An Acute Surgical Unit Open

J Isheerwood, Jasmine C. Winyard, Bijaya B. Karki, Wen Yuan Chung, Guy T. Layton , et al. · 2021

Background The United Kingdom now has one of the highest death rates from COVID 19, with over 40,000 deaths (1). It has been posited that the identification of care workers with immunity or increased resistance could be important in develo…

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